Word: egotist
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...modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...
Jauntily, endearing egotist George...
...juridical hypocrisies), The Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor, was temporarily imprisoned) and The Egotist (played by Actor Leo Dietrichstein...
What an amazing man he is. Simple, stalwart, with his waving hair, his clinging eyes, his dreamy voice? yet for all this shyness, this modesty, both in personality and in print, a furious and insistent egotist. His future, it seems to me, depends largely on his ability or inability to come to some conclusion about himself. He should go a step farther in his egocentric career. He should come out boldly to himself with the statement that he undoubtedly believes what many of his critics announce. Why not say it out loud, Mr. Anderson: "I am the American Balzac...
Stevenson's love of pose, his affectations, his theatric sense Mr. Steuart sees again in his last days in Samoa, as a sort of white chief, a lord of the manor among the admiring natives. "A bouncing egotist who loves the limelight as a beachcomber loves rum," said his neighbors...